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“In three days,” he continued, “I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?” “You’ll save me from marauding minotaurs?”

Bridgerton: Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Penelope & Colin’s Story) by Julia Quinn

March 28, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

In our last book, Colin Bridgerton put his foot firmly in his mouth where Penelope Featherington was concerned. He blames this on his mother hinting at Penelope as a potential bride (sure…blame someone else for your boorish behavior.) Now years later, Colin is still going on his jaunts around Europe, and Penelope is firmly on the shelf. Of course, with Colin back home for a brief spell and Penelope no longer worrying about being in Society’s eye, can anything change? And will Lady Danbury’s offer […]

Filed Under: History, Romance Tagged With: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn, regency england, Regency historical romance

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: History, Romance · Tags: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn, regency england, Regency historical romance ·
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“The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors”

Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me (Anthony’s Story) by Julia Quinn

October 18, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

 (To be honest, I’d rate this 2 stars, except for the few characters I actually liked.) This Season all the gossip columnists have it wrong; London’s most elusive and desirable bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry—he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle to  making Edwina Sheffield into Lady Bridgerton is his intended’s  (can she be his intended if she doesn’t know he’s chosen her?) older sister, Kate—the most exasperating woman (he’s not related to) to ever grace a London ballroom. Kate will […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:134 · Genres: Romance · Tags: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn ·
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“And if you say that’s because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I’m disowning all three of you.”

Bridgerton: The Duke and I (Daphne's Story) by Julia Quinn

July 19, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

  Simon Bassett, Duke of Hastings, has returned to England after six years away. Sworn to never marry, he wants desperately to avoid the scheming mothers and their unmarried daughters. Daphne Bridgerton, the fourth of eight children and the eldest daughter, is tired of being the “good old chum” to all the eligible bachelors, or attracting all the wrong ones; just once, she’d like to be looked at as a possible marital option by someone she’d actually want. When they meet at a ball during […]

Filed Under: History, Romance Tagged With: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:92 · Genres: History, Romance · Tags: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn ·
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If you’re presuming a Regency Romance, you presumed correctly

Mr. Cavendish I Presume by Julia Quinn

April 10, 2020 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

If anxiety = fluff reading, then Julia Quinn sales should be through the roof.  I’ve read at least one of Quinn’s previous novels, and I remember being largely satisfied- I didn’t have to think too hard and I don’t remember large plot holes or grating characters.  That same moderate praise holds true for Mr. Cavendish, which is one half of Quinn’s two-part “Dukes of Wyndham” set (the other is “The Lost Duke of Wyndham”). This installment is told from the perspectives of the current and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn, Mr. Cavendish I Presume, Romance

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #RegencyRomance, Julia Quinn, Mr. Cavendish I Presume, Romance ·
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I just bought it because of the cover

July 31, 2018 by Professor FluffyKitten 3 Comments

In the last month or so I’ve been dealing with some mental health issues and just couldn’t bring myself to read anything that required a lot of effort or that had any potential to make me upset. I am also not exactly sure how I got a copy of this book (it’s on my phone, so I might have spent too much time browsing the romance section in iBook), but the promise of a gay bodice-ripper romantic novel was just too good not to pick […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: #RegencyRomance, queer

Professor FluffyKitten's CBR10 Review No:6 · Genres: Romance · Tags: #RegencyRomance, queer ·
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Not to be confused with that other, other Girl

July 12, 2016 by Walking Widdershins Leave a Comment

The second book in the “Love Takes Root” series is The Other Harlow Girl. It’s about Lavinia (Vinnie, natch), the Harlow Hoyden‘s sister. You remember her from the first book, the one that was engaged to the [spoiler], and then [spoiler spoilered] him because he was about to [spoiler] her sister, who is now the Duchess of Trent (she married the guy that she tried to get to seduce Vinnie in the first book). Whew! Anyway, the Hoyden and the Duke are married, and Vinnie […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #RegencyRomance, CBR8

Walking Widdershins's CBR8 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #RegencyRomance, CBR8 ·
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